National coffee juggernaut Starbucks Coffee Co. continues to open new locations throughout Northeast Florida, this time in St. Johns County at 40 Sembler Drive.
The company’s 15th county location was recently approved for permits for Orlando-based CCS Construction to build a 2,650-square-foot free-standing store with a drive-thru, according to Jacksonville Daily Record. There is no timeline for the new location off of Florida 207, but it will likely open before the end of the year. The new location will feature the company’s more sustainable cold cups lineup, which debuted earlier this year.
These newly designed cups, available in tall, grande, venti, and trenta, use 10 to 20 percent less plastic than previous cold cups. Based on an analysis of life cycle assessments, producing the new cups is projected to save emissions equivalent to taking about 5,200 cars off the road annually and conserve about 2,800 Olympic-sized swimming pools of water. The new cups will keep more than 13.5 million pounds of plastic from landfills each year.
“We invented new ways to test the cup that we didn’t have before,” Kyle Walker, a senior packaging engineer at Starbucks, said in a news release. “Like, what if we take this feature and we move it up or down? Or what if we change the shape or the radius in this very small way? We were making all these micro adjustments and when we found the optimal combination, it was a real Eureka moment!”
